Why Mexico, NY is a great place to live

My Beloved Husband just wrote to tell me that our neighbors up there (dairy farmers who also have apple trees) have started to boil sap. They have a couple hundred maple trees that they tap this time of year. They have an old-fashioned sugar shack filled with new-fangled gear where they boil the sap and turn it into liquid gold: maple syrup.

From our house you can smell that maple syrup.

Pancakes, anyone?